Presentation

SEMPARIS is a dedicated server for announcements of upcoming
seminars and other academic activities (courses, conferences,
workshops, thesis defenses,..) in Paris area in all fields of
physics, mathematics, and computing.

You can use it at three levels -- public site, subscription site,
announcer site.

On the public site,
you can access all listings of upcoming seminars,
search through the archived seminars, and obtain the poster for a
given seminar.

On the
subscription site
(formerly 'personal site'), you can subscribe to
receive a personalized e-mail every day or every week that summarizes
selected listings of your choice filtered by
fields/series/institutions.

On the
announcer site (formerly 'administration site') you can
announce upcoming seminars and other academic activities that you
may be organizing. To access the administrative site, you need to
register yourself as a seminar organizer by sending a request to the
email address below.

Public Site

The main site
http://semparis.lpthe.jussieu.fr/ can view the ads of
the day, week, next week, all announcements to come when all the ads
on record, according to criteria of series, Institute, Domain, or as a
research field Speaker, Title, Abstract.

The
series are denoted by an
abbreviated name (e. g. RENC-THEO), and a full name (e.g. Rencontres
Théoriciennes). A seminar may be listed in several series if it is a
joint seminar. You can get details by clicking on the abbreviated
name: topic, time and place usual contact, homepage ... If you are
organizing a series of seminars, you can request the creation of a new
series by sending a message to [Contact] at bottom of this page.

The
institutes are also denoted by an abbreviated name and full name. A
seminar may be included in only one institute (the one where he will
actually take place). A series on the other hand can be sponsored by
several institutes in the case of joint seminars. A research by
Institute can provide seminars that are held in different places (but
sponsored by the same laboratory). It is easy to obtain
details about the institute by clicking on the abbreviated name:
address, telephone number and fax secretariat, homepage ... If you are
organizing seminars in your laboratory, you can have your laboratory
join SEMPARIS by sending a message to [Contact] at bottom of this page.

The areas
correspond to the classification
used by the arXiv preprint archive, and allow to group seminars by
centers of interests. Send a message to [Contact] at bottom of this page
if you
want to advertise a seminar in another area.

Subscription Site

You can access this website using your email address as your user ID
and a password created on first use.
You can view seminar listings sorted by field, institution, or series.
You can also subscribe yourself to receive selected listings by e-mail every day or
every week.
It is important to always use the same email address.

Announcer Site

The site allows people registered advertiser to announce a new
seminar, to modify information relating to a series or an
institute. There are two levels of privilege (administrator / user)
for each series and institute. To announce a seminar, it is necessary
to have either privilege for both the series and institute
which will host the seminar.

The administrator
is empowered to give or revoke the privilege to advertise in its
series or institute to any user previously reported. She can also
edit the general information about series or institute such as
usual location, schedule, topic, etc.

Access to the
announcer site requires a login/password (a priori different
from that for the subscription site). Those wishing to advertise seminars
in their lab or in a series may send their details to [Contact] at bottom
of this page to get an account.

Tips

After a seminar has taken place and with the agreement of the speaker,
the organizers are invited to upload
the slides into SEMPARIS (PowerPoint or PDF format, up to 15 MB). The slides
will then be available for consultation by anyone. For this purpose, search for the
seminar in 'archive' mode, and click on
(access restricted).

You can easily import the annoucements for SEMPARIS, filtered
by series or institute, into the calendar software of your choice, such as
iCal (Macintosh), korganiser and Evolution (Linux), Outlook (Windows)
or Google calendar (all operating systems). To this aim, copy the link
provided under [IcCal Format] on the page displaying your research query
into your software. The seminars
are all in a separate category `Seminar', which allows you to associate a specific
color of your choice.

SEMPARIS also offers a RSS/XML outpute mode, which you can use to import
announcement in your favorite news aggregator , or on the webpage
of your laboratory.

SEMPARIS can also be integrated to other websites,
see here
for an example. The upper and lower banner can be customized by any
luser with adminstrator privilege on the corresponding institute or seminar.

Announcers are requested to use the encoding ISO-8859-1 for accents,
and comply with the syntax of LaTeX title and abstract, otherwise
the automated generation of posters will fail.

History

The server superseded in 2004 an earlier server called `String Theory in Greater Paris' which was a news portal dedicated to the community of theoretical high-energy physicists. The archiving capabilities were introduced in 2008. The calendar display mode and other improvements for posting the announcements were introduced in May 2010.

Contacts

All questions, bug-reports, suggestions for improvements, proposals for adding
new features can be sent to
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SEMPARIS is maintained on a voluntary, non-profit basis by
researchers at
LPTHE , with no
supporting staff. While we are dedicated to ensure a smooth running of the
database, we apologize in advance for delayed answers to email requests, unplanned
system failures, etc.